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Cisco Live Event Features Observability, Network-as-a-Service, SASE
Cisco’s customer event, Cisco Live (virtual), is underway, and the company made many announcements. We are emphasizing what we think are the most relevant, which include Observability capabilities, Network as a Service (NaaS), and SASE. Here is a rundown of what we learned about today. Core portfolio (includes Campus Ethernet… Read More »Blog
650 Group Quick Take: MULTI-Cloud Operating Models Accelerate with NEW deal between HashiCorp and Cisco
In the news this week, Cisco has entered an agreement to sell HashiCorp Terraform® Cloud Business alongside its own Cisco Intersight® platform. Cisco and HashiCorp are helping enterprises accelerate application innovation, including automated management and security, across hybrid clouds. The deal helps enterprises achieve a hybrid cloud operating model using… Read More »Blog
SONiC OS continues to be hardened for data center deployments well beyond the hyperscalers
SONiC has gained popularity, and development efforts accelerated throughout 2020, despite the lack of travel and face-to-face interactions from COVID-19 restrictions. 2020 saw the incorporation of more features and excitement amongst suppliers and customers. SONiC now has more advanced features and functionality and continues to be hardened for data center… Read More »Blog
Extreme Networks Investor Day Highlighted Cloud-Managed and 5G Themes
Extreme Networks held its investor day and highlighted multiple themes. The company highlighted its Networking-focused Cloud-management capabilities, its large addressable market, how the company can benefit from the 5G market and its pivot to growth markets. CEO Ed Meyercord addressed Cloud, 5G and artificial intelligence themes. For us, we thought… Read More »Blog
The SASE Market Is Poised For Growth
This week, we published our Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Forecast and Research report, a deep analysis on the market, the key players, and the opportunity that lies ahead for it. We expect SASE revenue to grow more than 500% by 2025. As a result of strong market growth, we… Read More »Blog
Rakuten Mobile Reveals Future plans
In a briefing with Rakuten Mobile today, we learned two neat things: It is experimenting with 3GPP on satellite, and it hopes to announced a full-stack Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) customer as early as next quarter. The company also shared some plans that it has for improving coverage to 96%… Read More »Blog